For Immediate Release
Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018
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MANKATO, Minn. – St. Cloud State senior Natalie Gottschalk earned the NSIC Pentathlon Championship as the 2017-18 NSIC Indoor Track & Field Championship got underway on Sunday from Myers Field House in Mankato, Minnesota.  Gottschalk improved her NCAA Provisional score and set two personal records as she finished with 3703 points.  The converted score of 3725 ranks as the fourth best score in Division II this season.  
 
Gottschalk finished 19 points ahead of Wakpor Ighovojah of the Concordia-St. Paul, who scored 3684 points.  Gottschalk won three of the five events as she closed strong with wins in the long jump and the 800m run.  Earlier in the day she won the high jump with a personal best jump of 1.66m (5-5.25).  Her other personal best came in the long jump where she leaped 5.57m (18-3.25).  She won the 800m by over three seconds as she finished in a time of 2:21:37.   She also finished fourth in the 60m hurdles in 9.17 and ninth in the shot put with a throw of 9.78m (32-1).
 
In all, the top four finishers in the pentathlon scored over the NCAA provisional mark of 3295 in the competition. 

The NSIC Women’s Indoor Track & Field Championships continue Friday and Saturday, February 23-24 from Myers Field House in Mankato, Minnesota.

Event 1  Women Indoor Pentathlon
    Name                         School                  Finals  Points      
  1 Natalie Gottschalk           St. Cloud State           3703   10         
  2 Wakpor Ighovojah             Concordia-St. Paul        3684    8         
  3 Kalle Burney                 Concordia-St. Paul        3647    6         
  4 Carolyn Hackel               Minnesota State           3366    5         
  5 Makenzie Soeken              Upper Iowa                3192    4         
  6 Christa Benson               Bemidji State             3182    3         
  7 Alex Collins                 Minnesota-Duluth          3128    2         
  8 Kelsey Hurley                Bemidji State             3118    1         
  9 Summer Storm                 Msu-Moorhead              3102              
 10 Faith Lubner                 St. Cloud State           3075              
 11 Dakota Hutzler               Northern State            3022              
 12 Greta Villarreal             U-Mary                    2935              
 13 Sola Stephenson              Minnesota State           2795              
 14 Shantelle Rule               U-Mary                    2793              
 15 Leighten Fischer             St. Cloud State           2792              
 16 Libby Christenson            Bemidji State             2755              
 17 Alyssa Kavajecz              Minnesota-Duluth          2709              
 18 Morgan Shindelar             Minnesota State           2708              
 19 Emily Olson                  Sioux Falls               2689              
 20 Hailey Franklin              Minnesota-Duluth          2584              
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                         Women - Team Rankings - 1 Events Scored             
    1) Concordia-St. Paul          14        2) St. Cloud State            10
    3) Minnesota State              5        4) Upper Iowa                  4
    4) Bemidji State                4        6) Minnesota-Duluth            2